To celebrate the centenary of the first automotive circumnavigation of Australia, the Incredible Journey is recreating the trip in a restored Citroen
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00:00My name's Kevin Amos and I'm with The Incredible Journey.
00:20This year is the 100th anniversary of the first car to circumnavigate Australia.
00:26So what we're doing is this year, to celebrate the 100th anniversary, we're taking this tribute
00:32car right round Australia, putting it on display at schools, public events like this, so that
00:38people can recall what Australia was like 100 years ago and celebrate the courage and
00:45commitment of two guys who literally bush-bashed their way around Australia.
00:49Their original plan was to drive from Darwin, sorry, from Perth up to Darwin, but half of
00:56that trip was bush-bashing, and when they got to Darwin they basically said, no way
01:01in the world are we going back where we came from, let's keep going, and so became the
01:06first car to circumnavigate Australia.
01:09The original journey took three months to get from Perth to Darwin, and then another
01:15two months from Darwin to go right back round to Perth.
01:19When they purchased this car, it was a real wreck.
01:24The mudguards were all rusty, the wheels were absolutely shot, the upholstery on the roof
01:30and so on was all cracked and so on, and they purchased it and a vintage tractor restorer
01:40in South Australia said, send it over to me and I'll fix it up for you.
01:46So it was trucked over to South Australia and a team of guys spent 600 hours restoring
01:52it.
01:53So when you look at the car, all this sort of stuff is brand new, they actually manufactured
02:00based on what was there left, all the mudguards and reupholstered the roof and so on, so it's
02:08really 102 years old, but two years old, but the engine, the axles, the rims, the gearbox
02:16is all original.